A Post-Thanksgiving Cornucopia: World AIDS Day, The Birth of (RED)WIRE, Milk and Prop 8
The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.
The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.
Torie Osborn | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
Yes, we've come a long way when we are fighting for the right to marry as opposed to defending the right of gay schoolteachers to work. But we could have beaten Prop 8 had we studied our own history.
Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
We must fight for all Americans to be treated equally on every single level of their lives -- and this must include health care. We must fight every single day for this change.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.28.2008 | Entertainment
One failing of the otherwise interesting film is that it never gives any insight into the reason behind Milk's rapid career change from insurance to gay insurgency. It's not too much of a stretch to say that Milk was born again.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
The most poignant aspect of Milk is that the story it tells -- of the fight against ignorance and intolerance -- is, unlike the hairdos and the Haight couture in the film -- all too current.
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
This year the fear and bigotry that animated Proposition 8 in California has made this a strange Thanksgiving.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
It was the Monday after Thanksgiving, thirty years ago today, that San Francisco again changed forever. Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated.
Marshall Fine | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
There she was, on the screen, in Milk. Anita Bryant, speaking out about "the homosexual agenda." Back in 1977, she was hugely controversial.
AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
Gus Van Sant has spent the past few years making dreamy, amorphous meditations on life and death that seemingly were intended for his hardcore fans, h...
Tanene Allison | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.
Matt Budd | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
Harvey Milk inspired hundreds of thousands of gay people in his lifetime and now with Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, he has the opportunity to reach millions more in death.
New York Times | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. ... I asked Senator Feinstein, who became mayor...
Marc Malkin | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
Bryant became the gay community's public enemy No. 1 for leading a movement to overturn antidiscrimination laws. I called her office to find out what she thinks about the upcoming movie.
LA Times | Posted 12.03.2008 | Entertainment
James Franco is loosening up. That may seem an odd way to characterize an actor who is pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at Columbia University, taki...
Kip Williams | Posted 11.29.2008 | Entertainment
Last night was the world premiere of Milk at the Castro Theatre! For those who don't know, that's the new Gus Van Sant film about Harvey Milk, starring Sean Penn in the title role.
AP | EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 11.29.2008 | Entertainment
SAN FRANCISCO — It was only fitting that "Milk," the film about Harvey Milk's life and death, premiere Tuesday night in the Castro. Milk, San F...
Lane Hudson | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
At a time when Prop 8 threatens to deal an enormous setback to the fight for equality for the LGBT community, politicians have been silent for far too long. One of those politicians is you.
New York Times | Posted 11.16.2008 | Entertainment
One morning in 1978 a disgruntled San Francisco politician, Dan White, climbed through a City Hall window, assassinated Mayor George Moscone, then sho...
Out Magazine | Posted 10.30.2008 | Entertainment
Sean Penn's "Milk" costar James Franco has further dished about the pair's lengthy on-screen kiss. Franco told Out magazine, "After our [on-screen] ki...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.05.2008 | Entertainment
Here is the first video look at Gus Van Sant's "Milk." The film tells the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (played...
GQ | Posted 09.12.2008 | Entertainment
James Franco is on the September 2008 cover of GQ Magazine to promote his latest film, "Pineapple Express." Here's some of what the 30-year-old actor,...
E! | Planet Gossip's Marc Malkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Sean Penn does more than pay lip service to his role as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant's movie about the slain gay rights activist. Just ask Mark Martin...
Towleroad | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Flickr user Troublepup shot these photos of Penn as Milk and James Franco as his lover Scott Smith while they were shooting a scene in the Castro. Via...
Hollywood Reporter | Gregg Goldstein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Sean Penn as openly gay '70s politician Harvey Milk and Matt Damon as his assassin? Yes, if Gus Van Sant has his way. Penn is attached to play Milk a...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.31.2008 | Entertainment